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  Cassini Spacecraft Witnesses Saturn's Blues

  February 8, 2005 — Colorful new images from the Cassini spacecraft show that Saturn's northern hemisphere has a case of the blues. In the first image, the icy moon Mimas is set against a dazzling and dramatic ... > full story
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  Saturn's Bull's-Eye Marks Its Hot Spot

  February 4, 2005 — NASA astronomers using the Keck I telescope in Hawaii are learning much more about a strange, thermal "hot spot" on the tip of Saturn's south pole. In the most precise reading of ... > full story
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  Huygens Lands In Titanian Mud

  January 25, 2005 — Although Huygens landed on Titan's surface on 14 January, activity at ESA's European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, continues at a furious pace. Scientists are still ... > full story
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  Seeing, Touching And Smelling The Extraordinarily Earth-Like World Of Titan

  January 23, 2005 — On 14 January ESA's Huygens probe made an historic first ever descent to the surface of Titan, 1.2 billion kilometres from Earth and the largest of Saturn's moons. Starting at about 150 ... > full story
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  UK Scientists Get A "Whiff" Of Titan's Surface

  January 23, 2005 — Further insights into Titan were unveiled as scientists involved in the joint NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission presented further results and images a week to the day after the successful descent ... > full story
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  Keck Telescope Captures Titan But Misses Huygens

  January 21, 2005 — Despite real though faint hopes, ground-based astronomers failed to see any sign of the Huygens probe's plunge into Titan's atmosphere, but they did obtain some near-infrared images of ... > full story
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  Huygens Probe Lands On Saturn's Moon Titan

  January 15, 2005 — After its seven-year journey through the Solar System on board the Cassini spacecraft, ESA’s Huygens probe successfully descended through the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, ... > full story
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  Huygens Sets Off With Correct Spin And Speed

  January 11, 2005 — On Christmas Day 2004, the Cassini spacecraft flawlessly released ESA’s Huygens probe, passing another challenging milestone for Cassini-Huygens mission. But, with no telemetry data from ... > full story
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  Scientists Prepare For Huygens Descent On Titan

  January 11, 2005 — The probe separated from the Cassini spacecraft early Saturday, Dec. 25, 2004, central European time (or about 8:30 p.m. Dec. 24, Arizona time). Huygens is now on its 14,000 mile-per-hour, 20-day ... > full story
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  Saturn's Moon Iapetus Shows A Bulging Waistline

  January 10, 2005 — Images returned by NASA's Cassini spacecraft cameras during a New Year's Eve flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh- tuss) show startling surface features that are fueling heated ... > full story

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